Fraternity-Testvériség, 1962 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1962-11-01 / 11. szám
FRATERNITY 11 The head of this control apparatus is the Politburo. But not even the powerful Politburo of the new Hungarian Communist Party could rightfully say that it is its own boss. The decisions and actions are controlled by the Kremlin. The policy line, adopted by the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, is the guidance which must be followed, unless special Kremlin instructions give other orders. The leadership of the Party has been fully aware that its dependency on Moscow’s support and the Kremlin’s control over the Party has been a source of cynicism. In a major speech to the workers of the Csepel Iron and Metal Works on December 1, 1961, Kádár asserted that all the parties in the international Communist movement are independent and equal. But he quickly qualified this statement by adding that the Soviet Union’s Communist Party is the party from which every Communist Party may learn, and therefore called on the members of his party to study and utilize in practice the experiments of the Soviet Party. The evidence clearly shows that the chief characteristics of the new Hungarian Communist Party are essentially the same as those which made the old Party repugnant to the vast majority of the Hungarian people. In October 1956 Kádár realized that the burden of the crimes of past leaders is too much to carry, and he admitted this again in August 1962, but the main burden of the old Party continues to alienate the masses from the new Party, too. The people of Hungary are well aware —— as this has been brought home to them day after day — that the new Hungarian Communist Party is just like the old one was, an instrument of Soviet imperialism. (To be continued)
